The standard medication for Hepatitis C, a deadly disease that leads to liver failure, involves a combination of alpha interferon and ribavirin. New research suggests that the addition of a third antiviral drug called bocoprevir may boost the treatment’s effectiveness by up to 75 percent.
A study conducted by Dr. Paul Y. Kwo and his team [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 16th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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In Israel, new discoveries are being made towards the cure for cancer. A common fat molecule which functions like a switch for cell growth has been identified in plants. Prof. Shaul Yalovsky of Tel Aviv University’s (TAU) Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants Department, who made the discovery, also suggests that this same switch may [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 1st, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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The simple act of detecting anemia plays a large part in the diagnosis for various other health problems such as malnutrition, malaria or HIV/AIDS. Yet, in impoverished parts of the world, where resources are lacking, patients have to wait for extended periods of time for expensive laboratory test results to come back from big cities. [...]
Filed under: Community, Healthcare, News on July 26th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Who knew that right at the mouth of the Hudson River lay a vast richness of ecology waiting to be investigated by scientists? In the Hudson Canyon, a seabed gash almost as deep as the Grand Canyon, tuna, swordfish, tilefish, monkfish and red crabs among others swarm its headwaters, making it a place of riches [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on July 25th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Social Robotics is a branch of computer science that deals with enhancing communication between humans and machines. At various laboratories, robots programmed to deal with human interaction are being tested out. But more specifically, they are trained to both teach and learn an assortment of skills for people. One particular application is for teaching children [...]
Filed under: News, Technology, education on July 24th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Out of sheer luck, researchers may have found a pill that can possibly be a cure for Alzheimer’s or at least stop it from progressing.
This drug, according to researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern, stops brain cells from dying and boosts their numbers, thus sharpening memory. If given early enough, the drug could prevent [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on July 19th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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An estimated 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. That’s over 14 percent of the estimated number of U.S. citizens over the age of 65 – the age bracket at which the disease is generally diagnosed.
Just as the number of people who contract Alzheimer’s disease is expected to spike dramatically, scientists are on the verge of [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on July 16th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Brian Chen, the author of an upcoming book called Always On, which makes inferences into the always-connected mobile future, recently published an article called “Will the iPad Make You Smarter?” on Wired.com’s Gadget Lab. The article touches upon the new style of user interfaces that mobile gadgets like Apple’s iPad are beginning to move towards, [...]
Filed under: News, Technology, education on July 15th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Doctors tell us that a healthy lifestyle and easygoing attitude will help to extend our time on earth. True as this may be, this is only one side of the coin. Researchers say that 30% of aging is genetically based, and they’re closing in on some of the genes that may extend our lifespan.
A team [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on July 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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There couldn’t have been a better time for Israeli professor Shafrira Goldwasser to receive an award for ‘zero-knowledge,’ an ingenious way to encrypt information. With Google having been recently accused of using private data to improve its mapping service, Internet users from all over the world need some peace of mind about letting their private [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on June 14th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.